Word: declaim
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...their theatrical best, lawyers are star actors who write their own lines, improvise to meet the occasion and use the courtroom as a stage to declaim on matters of life and death. Sir John Mortimer, who died at 85 on Jan. 16, was an Oxford-trained barrister (and the son of a barrister) who proved adept at arguing his cases both in his fiction and in real life...
...most presumptuous of the chattering classes, columnist Adam Goldenberg ’08, made no apologies for his “political, even partisan stance” of urging President Faust to declaim against DADT at the commissioning ceremony. The military’s discriminatory policy, to Goldenberg, clearly overrides any respect for prudence or decorum. Evidently, the slightest support of ROTC without an accompanying jeremiad against DADT signifies complicity in oppression...
Perhaps the temptation to declaim on such a grand stage is too much to resist. And because the Olympics have become a sort of debutante ball for nations entering the global lite, governments must ask whether mere attendance confers a stamp of approval on the host. The boycott logic is easy enough to follow...
...else could make them. A crazy-smart mix of avant- and retro-garde, they address big topics (corporate greed, national identity, pre-adolescent lust, family betrayal) in a style that suggests an antique silent film rescued from a dump heap - on Mars. The film stock is scratched, the actors declaim in bombastic gestures, the canned music hits overly ominous chords, and the printed intertitles often read like the mutterings of obsession ("Force!" "Must escape!" "What if???"). If this sounds off-putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales of the Gimli Hospital, his first full-length feature...
...Actually I wouldn't quote it, I'd declaim it as mine, as if I was not a verse thief or poem-forgia. I also watched Nash on TV, where with Perelman, George S. Kaufman and Fred Allen he formed an informal group of sour-faced humorists who drawled cunning sarcasm So lacerating that anyone on the receiving end would collapse as if thrown down a Yellowstone National Park chasm. Without rising from behind the panel, they showed the world their rumps And defined the '50s wit as a fellow with a tone somewhere between gramps and grumps. Years later...